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Man’s sex toy sparks armed siege

A British man sparked a major police incident when locals mistook his sex toy for a gun.

A fifteen man team of armed police officers swooped on Telford England in May after he was reported to police by panicked neighbours who thought they saw him carrying a gun tucked into the waistband of his trousers.

But after arresting Ian Poulton, 33, they discovered the dangerous weapon was actually a silver dildo.

Speaking at the time, one neighbour said: ‘I think this is what you might call a classic cock-up.